Is the shoulder of the Hero and helps to ease the tension during the Journey. — We have thus come to the end of this long Journey. We explored the Hero’s Journey with its stages and Campbell’s archetypes. However, we need to know the latest archetype that supports the Hero on their Journey: the Trickster. We talk about them in the last article of the Character…

Tests the Hero by creating difficulties for them, probing their strength and will to complete their Journey. — Speaking of the difficulties the Hero faces before considering their venture and Journey over, we now encounter another archetype, the Guardian, in the eighth article of the Character Archetypes Series. The Guardian tests the Hero by creating difficulties for them, probing their strength and will to complete their Journey.

Hinders the Hero during their exploits and creates difficulties the Hero is forced to overcome to continue their Journey. — The seventh article of the Character Archetypes Series talks about Shadow. We have arrived at the “Supreme Ordeal”, the moment in which the Hero wages battle against his enemy, The Shadow.

Creates doubts, suspicions, and uncertainty. And makes a twist in the story. — Before getting to the final part of the Hero’s Journey, we stop to describe two essential characters in the narrative. In the previous article, we talked about the Herald, and in this article of Character Archetypes Series, we talk about Shapeshifter. This is a character who changes throughout the story…

Communicates the beginning of the Hero’s Journey: it’s the triggering event that starts the whole story. — The fifth article of the Character Archetypes Series talks about Herald. In the previous article, we arrived at the last step of the Hero’s Journey. But let us stop for a moment in our narration and return to the initial stage, the “Call to Adventure”.

Allows the Hero to move forward on the Journey without losing hope, even in moments of greatest difficulty. — The fourth article of the Character Archetypes Series talks about Ally. Our Hero has just crossed the “First Threshold” and has definitively abandoned the “Ordinary World”. The Hero is now in the company of the Mentor, a fundamental character they met in the first stages of their Journey. …

Acts as a compass to the Hero and guides them in facing their Journey. — The third article of the Character Archetypes Series talks about the Mentor. To do this, let us resume our Hero’s Journey.

They are not infallible characters. Their beauty is the evolution that characterizes the life of each of us. — In this article on Character Archetypes Series, we talk about the Hero. The Hero is the first of the Characters Archetypes. In his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell talks about it in depth. Campbell’s studies also directly involved Christopher Vogler, a consultant for the Disney screenplays…

Behavioral patterns present in every story every writer must know. — An archetype, by definition, is the first example of something. Carl Gustav Jung talked a lot about archetypes in the field of analytic psychology. He defined archetypes as the unconscious content of a group that replicates certain behaviors according to particular constants. From these studies, Joseph Campbell, an American scholar…